Feeding 1 year old

I’m struggling so much to keep on top of 3 meals a day (plus snacks). Am I doing something wrong? Should I be meal prepping? Some days my baby will love one thing and the next is like “nah you’re alright” 🥲 I also want to be exposing him to lots of different foods but it’s a lot when my husband and I just eat the same foods on repeat. Am I just a terrible mum?

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I think you’re fine, my son eats a lot of what we eat too as long as you expose him to something different every so often you should be fine. I don’t think you’re a terrible mom.

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No. I could have written this myself. I hate trying to feed my 1 yr old. I wish she could tell me what she wants cause I'm absolutely useless at this bit too. As I just eat the same foods too. I try and buy foods for her when we do a shop but struggle massively

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I was litterally about to post something similar for my almost 8 month old. Ive been doing 2 "meals" a day and a snack, and am about to increase it to 3. And I honestly have no clue what to feed her besides fruits and veggies, oatmeal and eggs, and little pieces of meat from my plate. That and she makes a huge mess. Cleaning it up 3 times a day sounds exhausting. I'm gonna do it but damn.

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I meal prep some snacks but meal plan the rest of the week so I know he’s getting at least a bit of variety - on the whole we eat roughly the same each week though (pasta night, Mexican night, Thai / curry night etc) x

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I meal prep/batch cook, I’ve found that easier. But as someone else said, I also cook meals in between and always offered new foods to give choice and variety

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Try to think of variety in a slightly different way. Like if you have pasta once a week, totally fine and normal! Try to use different pasta shapes or change the type of sauce, etc. variety doesn’t just mean something 100% different.

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